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One quick question, I went ahead and cut the width of the neck closer to the end size I'm wondering when y'all taper yalls down? Do you do it after you've attached the fretboard and taper it all at once or do you do it before hand and then just taper the fretboard to the neck?

Made up a quick little jig to thickness the headstock and got it as thin as I can from the front side, if I would have gone any smaller it would have taken the nut to close to the heel, so I'll have to figure out how to take the rest from the back. I also got my truss rod Chanel routed and put the rod in. A little bit of the wrapping broke off, hopefully this won't cause any problems?

I need to start thinking about how I am gonna do my scarf joints from here on out. For these 2 necks I put the scarf joint in the headstock and I really don't like the way that it looks, I think I'll be alright with it on this one because I'm planning on putting a walnut veneer on the headstock. how do y'all do yours? Put it on the neck under the fret board?

Oh ok I'll keep an eye out for one then! was able to get the new neck planed down, planed the old one into a fretboard blank, scarf joint cut, scarf joint routed smooth and glued up! It's been a pretty successful day so far! tomorrow I will unclamp it and route the truss rod Chanel then I'm just waiting on my fretboard template to get here

I'm sorry, hard struck rasp?

I picked up the wood for my neck (again) lol. Im gonna try and get it planed down, scarf jointed and truss rod routed tonight, since I screwed up my other neck I didn't know what I was gonna do with that wood, I've came to the conclusion that I'm going to plane it down just passed the truss rod channel and then it'll be the perfect thickness for my fretboard. So a pretty big mess up I can at least turn some of it into a positive. I have lmii slotting me a fretboard right now that I can use as a template so hopefully I can get a good ways on all of this this week Also I picked up a cabinet rasp today, I looked everywhere for a spokeshave but couldn't find one under $100 here in town. This rasp is really an amazing tool! Because it's so easy to work with Ive decided I'm just gonna shape the whole neck out with it, it has a pretty rough cut but it didn't take much sanding to get decently smooth, I'm thinking I might go buy another one that's not so rough for when I get closer to shape. Anyways here's me just messing around on some scrap pine.

Thanks pro!! I'm guessing it was just my browser because right after it said "cleaning" it worked just like it should. To get this kinda back on topic I finished the nitro last night and it's hanging in the dining room. I figure I'll leave it there for a couple weeks before buffing it, I picked up my wood to replace the neck that I scrapped on my other build so that one should be moving along a little better now.

As I was downloading google chrome to try it that way safari cleaned itself and now everything works as it should! Thank god cuz that was starting to pis* me off! Lol

Holy crap, This is awesome! Im kind of upset that your $100 Home Depot build is looking better than my build I have going on with 4x that amount in it. I really like the way that you sandwiched the body also! I might have to keep that idea for a later build.

On another note, my attempt at trying to fix my screw up on the neck didn't work at all! Oh well at least it's on the back and at least smooth now. Its strange the difference in color, I did the same amount of primer coats and same amount of color coats but there is a noticeable difference here. I did use a new can so maybe they just did something wrong when mixing it.

How much lacquer would you say you use in coating a guitar? I feel like I'm using a heck of a lot, I'm 6 coats in right now and I've already shot about 3/4 of a 1 quart can. Is that about normal?

Haha it looks that way! I had to try to prevent over spray somehow and trash bags is all I could come up with so taped a trash bag over the body and another over the head stock.

Don't mind the trash bags but got it fixed and gonna put 2 coats of lacquer on it tomorrow and pray the lines between the two finishes aren't to hard to fix.

Yeah this one doesn't seem to have any filter on it. I will double check that my line is clean before shooting. I had a mishap on the neck that I'm gonna have to fix before going any further. I had a run that I stupidly tried to fix while it was still wet, and I just bought a case of beer on the way home Scott, so I like your thinking.

Alrighty, I'll keep going then just to be safe. On my seafoam green s series I literally sprayed 2 coats of nitro, let it sit for 2 weeks and put it all back together. I'd really like to get a more professional finish with this one. My co worker is going to let me borrow his compressor so I'll be able to do it at home from here on out, I've got a bunch of welding to do at my second job so I'll probably only get to spray one coat a night but I'm in no rush.

Spraying worked great although this is my first time using a paint sprayer and may not be the best but I am happy with it. Do y'all think 4 decently wet coats will be enough or should I do more?

Thanks Andy, I appreciate that!! I was thinking about that also but with the scarf joint I think it'd be pretty hard to do that. I think I'm just gonna need to cut my losses and start over. I only had about $12 in this blank but all the time I have in it is what sucks! I think it'd be a lot more time spent to try and fix my mistake than to just start all over.

I did go and buy a paint sprayer yesterday and brought the guitar up to work so I could use there air compressor to spray. I am using behlen vinyl sealer between the paint and nitro.

I did a test piece over the last few hours, i don't know how nitro normally reacts to paint but here is what I have going on right now. Primed, painted, vinyl sealed and nitro finished just like I did on the guitar, when I apply the nitro it makes the paint wet again and I can scrape the paint right off the wood. When I apply it super wet it doesn't pull the paint off, when I put it on lightly it pulls the paint off. After applying it wet and letting it set for an hour or so the finish is rock solid. So I think as long as I spray the nitro it will turn out just fine on the guitar.

It really does hit the pride haha. It was just a dumb miscalculation when trying to measure my fence out on the table saw. Oh well it happens, I'll go buy some wood and start on another neck for it this week. It just sucks because the neck is all I'm really waiting on now. Thanks for the respect! I really love working with metal and I'm sure I will be doing it till the day I die, there's just something about taking a solid chunk of steel and making it into something that people can use every day that really makes me enjoy my job. I think that's also a big reason I'm enjoying building guitars.

The paint that I've used is acrylic lacquer, I'm not very good with paints but I'm guessing the "acrylic" means water based? I did quite a bit of research before applying it and a lot of people have said they used nitro lacquer over acrylic lacquer with no issues. On a ibanez sa series I refinished a few months ago I used acrylic laquer primer and acrylic lacquer seafoam green color then sprayed it with aerosol nitro with no problems. The green paint was also burnt so maybe this helped with adhesion?!? Idk.